Year 2 - Seagulls are special too

 Today Year 2 learnt about seagulls in New Zealand.  They aren't often appreciated, but did you know the red billed and black billed gulls are in decline?

We read Celia Seagull and the Plastic Sea

How can we help the three types of seagulls?

Nala "More rubbish bins near the beach"

Isabel "Don't throw rubbish into the sea"

Jackson "Go on a boat with a net and scoop up rubbish"

Rosie "Collect rubbish at the beach"

Bryn "Use the plastic again"

Hugo "Take three for the sea"

Nolan "The wind puts it back in there"

Torres "Recycle plastic and make a rubbish bin"

Luke "Stop dropping rubbish because it ends up in our drains  and goes to the ocean"

Acacia "Pick up litter from the sea"

Evelyn "Don't drop rubbish"

Atara "Use a fishing rod to fish for rubbish"

Freya "We should have a cleaning  day every week"

Hugo "BRING A LITTERFREE LUNCH"

We went on a rubbish hunt:

Year 3 Kumara Part 2

Our year 3 tamariki continued learning about the journey of the kumara to Aotearoa and how important it is to the Maori people. We read this article and talked about how the iwi from Mataatua record the whakapapa of the kumara compared to Tanui - Te Tapa Ingoa

We compared and contrasted growing food ourselves and how food gets to the supermarket by reading this article Kumara Behind the Scenes

We took action by using our school compost to enrich the soil in our Mara Kia in preparation for the kumara planting and mulched our new native trees to protect them from the dry season.